Basket

Museum number:

2-4542

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020004542

Alternate number:

x-688 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.167

Object count:

1

Description:

Twined. Embroidered with colored wool, braided rim with drawstring.

Donor:

Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections

Collection place:

Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska

Culture or time period:

Aleut

Collector:

unknown

Collection date:

1898

Materials:

Cotton (textile) and Yarn

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1904

Context of use:

Sounds like fish basket type" (fide Lydia Black, 1982)

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

height 28 centimeters and diameter 23 centimeters

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